Our Lady of Weight Loss

Get Jiggy Weight Loss Puzzles keep your hands and mind busy (and out of the cookie jar). Enjoy this week's puzzle: Up Close and Personal with Leaf.

"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You…

Have you ever imagined waking up one fine day, happily and mysteriously naturally thin? I've always wanted to wake up naturally thin, so I could eat whatever I wanted. I thought freedom equaled eating with complete abandon. I hadn't considered that freedom might be freedom from cravings or freedom from obsessing about food.

Food journaling keeps us honest. It helps us to keep track of what we eat and identify when and why we eat. In other words, keeping a food journal can shed light on our eating habits. Statistics show that those who keep food journals are more successful at losing weight and keeping it off (permanent…

I received the following E-emergency note the other night from a client of mine - who by the way - has permanently removed 18 pounds in the past 12 weeks. I thought it worth sharing, because I know that we all have 'alien' voices in our heads that 'make' us eat the donut, cookie, ice…

Last night, when Willamina (star character of ABC Family's new show "HUGE," played by Nikki Blonsky of "Hairspray") was told to strip down to her bathing suit for the annual group 'before' photo, I cringed. I cringed for her, and for me. It brought back an unpleasant, somewhat traumatic memory. When I was in second…

Last week, I did a segment for Better.tv and along with some fabulous tips on summer weight loss, offered up my two best gazpacho recipes. It was great fun. While you're whipping up a great healthy summer batch of gazpacho, watch the video!

It's Jigsaw Sundae (oops, Freudian slip) ... Sunday! Our Lady of Weight Loss here with your weekly Get Jiggy, Keep Your Hands Busy puzzle!

"HUGE," a new drama, starring Hairspray's Nikki Blonsky and Hayley Hasselhoff (yup, David Hasselhoff's daughter) premieres this Monday, June 28th on ABC Family, The story takes place at a Camp Shane, a weight loss camp for kids located in upstate New York, where larger-than-life teens sort through the challenges and of being an overweight teenager.

A Strategy that CURES! For many of us the biggest challenge in our day comes at night. We find it almost impossible to simply put down the fork, push away from the dinner table and move on into the night without finding our minds drifting towards food. It would be lovely to be minus the…

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